Magnificent Boat
From an eminent and provocative historian, a wrenching parable of the ravages of colonialism in the South Pacific. Countless museums in the West have been criticized for their looted treasures, but few as trenchantly as the Humboldt Forum, which d...
Hitlers Volksstaat
Während des Zweiten Weltkrieges verwandelte die Regierung Hitler den Staat in eine Raubmaschine ohne Beispiel. Die große Mehrheit der Deutschen stellte sie mit einer Mischung aus sozialpolitischen Wohltaten, guter Versorgung und kleinen Steuergesc...
Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State
Addressing the issue of how Hitler won the allegiance of ordinary Germans, a historian argues that, through a campaign of organized theft--crippling taxes on citizens of occupied nations, mass looting, enslavement, and systematic plunder--the proceeds of which were channeled into generous social programs at home, the Nazis bought peoples consent. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
Why the Germans? Why the Jews?: Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust
Countless people have grappled with these questions, but few have come up with answers as original and perceptive as those of German historian Gotz Aly. Tracing the prehistory of the Holocaust, from the 1800s to the Nazis' assumption of power in 1933, Aly shows that German anti-Semitism did not originate with racist ideology or religious animosity, as is often supposed. Instead, through striking statistics and economic analysis, he demonstrates that it was rooted in a more basic emotion: material envy. Resenting the success of the urban, well-educated Jewish minority in the rapidly modernizing world, Germans embraced compensatory theories of Jewish racial inferiority. And the growing resentment, pervading society, provided fertile ground for Hitler and his genocidal politics.
Europa Mot Judarna 1880-1945
Den tyske historiken Götz Alys bok "Europa mot judarna" handlar om Förintelsens europeiska förhistorier och de förfärande konsekvenser vardaglig pragmatism, gruppegoism och självrättfärdighet kan få. Det var, menar Aly, decennier av tilltagande antisemitism runt om i Europa som gjorde det möjligt för de nazistiska mördarna att finna stöd för sitt projekt - "den slutliga lösningen" - i nästan alla europiska länder. Denna antisemitism var inte någon medeltida kvarleva från kontinentens efterblivna avkrokar utan en modern företeelse som från 1880-talet och framåt underblåstes av en rad sociala omvälvningar och politiska omständigheter, inte minst nationalistiska politikers vilja att isolera och stigmatisera misshagliga grupper. Men antisemitismen tog sig olika uttryck i olika länder och grep olika djupt, vilket Aly visar med exempel från hela Europa - från Ryssland i norr till Grekland i söder. "Europa mot judarna" är också en bok av starka berättelser. Skildringen av de vedermödor som drabbade de judar som återvände - eller i varje fall försökte återvända - till Österrike efter krigsslutet kan föra tankarna till en Franz Kafka eller en Thomas Bernhard. Men boken reser därtill en rad principiellt viktiga frågor om historiska orsakssamband och antisemitismen som ett modernt fenomen. Frågor med en hög grad av relevans i en ny främlingsfientlig och gruppegoistisk tid. Götz Aly, född 1947, utbildade sig till journalist och studerade sedan historia och statsvetenskap i Berlin. Aly har publicerat en rad uppmärksammade böcker om den nationalsocialistiska regimen och Förintelsen för vilka han belönats med gästprofessurer och en rad priser. Daidalos har tidigare publicerat hans "Hitlers folkstat. Rån, raskrig och nationell socialism" (2009).
Cleansing the Fatherland
"The chapters in this volume painfully drive home the point that certainly as far as Germany is concerned, the lessons of the Third Reich have not yet been learned...These significant attempts by younger recruits to the larger medical establi...
Architects of Annihilation
A groundbreaking study of the numerous academics and technocrats without whom Hitler's crude anti-Semitism could never have been translated into a systematic policy of genocide. ARCHITECTS OF ANNIHILATION follows the activities of the demographers...
Why the Sky Is Blue
Why is the sky blue? Parents don't know what to say when their children ask. Why the Sky Is Blue answers this ancient and surprisingly complex question in a more entertaining and accessible way than ever before. Gotz Hoeppe takes the reader on a h...
Nazism in Syria and Lebanon
The increasingly vibrant political culture emerging in Lebanon and Syria in the 1930s and early 1940s is key to the understanding of local approaches towards the Nazi German regime. For many contemporary observers in Beirut and Damascus, Nazism no...
Architects of Annihilation: Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction
Two of Germany's most provocative investigative historians examine the frightening role of young educated careerists in building the Holocaust's ideological and material infrastructure. Moving from the waning Weimar Republic to Auschwitz's fully operating gas chambers, Architects of Annihilation shows how the unthinkable technocratic solutions to Germany's wartime problems were not only thought but spelled out and implemented. Documenting the eager participation of some of the country's best and brightest, it rejects interpretations that identify only Nazi leaders as the perpetrators of the Holocaust. For Hitler's thinkers--career-minded demographers, geographers, economists, civil servants, and academics in the Third Reich's think tanks and bureaucratic offices--Europe was a drawing board on which to work out their grand designs. They were encouraged to rationalize production methods, standardize products, introduce an international division of labor, and modernize and simplify
